5 Stocks Pushing The Consumer Non-Durables Industry Higher

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the consumer non-durables industry higher today, March 11, 2013.

3. As of noon trading, Ecolab ( ECL) is up $0.36 (0.5%) to $78.50 on average volume Thus far, 410,019 shares of Ecolab exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.1 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $78.03-$78.93 after having opened the day at $78.16 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $78.14.

Ecolab Inc. develops and markets programs, products, and services for hospitality, foodservice, healthcare, industrial, and energy markets worldwide. It operates through six segments: U.S. Cleaning and Sanitizing; U.S. Ecolab has a market cap of $23.0 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 33.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 8.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Ecolab a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Ecolab as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. Get the full Ecolab Ratings Report now.